Electricity and Control January 2020

CONTROL SYSTEMS + AUTOMATION : PRODUCT NEWS

Manufacturing management technology ABB, a technology leader driving the digital transformation of industries, launched its new version of ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software at SPS Nuremberg, Germany, in November 2019. The new software offers an extended range of capabilities to streamline production for increased productivity and profitability. It is flexible and secure with a suite of industrial applications giving operators, supervisors and plant managers the insights to take appropriate actions for increased productivity, quality and compliance. New features in the enhanced manufacturing operations management platform include the following. - An HTML 5 web platform runs across all services, giving the user a seamless experience and allowing for applications to be viewed on different devices, down to a 10-inch tablet. - A smart interactive dashboard application provides greater visibility, spanning IT and OT environments, and promotes collaboration. - A statistical process control (SPC) application is used to determine if each process in the manufacturing line is in a state of control. The new SPC application works across all the different apps and modules and helps the user to improve quality and production related performance. - A new ‘batch compare’ application, additional to the existing ‘batch view’ and ‘batch investigate’ features, provides for advanced batch analysis and comparison. - Enhanced security in terms of cyber security. “ABB Ability™Manufacturing Operations Management is a comprehensive, scalable and modular software suite that optimises visibility, knowledge and control throughout the operations domain,” said Narasimham Parimi, Head of Digital Products - Product Management, Process Control Platform. “This latest release provides a range of rich new functionality and an enhanced user experience that enables operations to become more productive and responsive.” ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Operations Management is designed to simplify production management by enabling performance monitoring, downtime management, and maintenance support, as well as providing statistical production analysis tools. It provides solutions to facilitate the collection, consolidation and distribution of production, quality and energy information via the plant’s web-based reports, trends and graphs. The new, self-service dashboard application increases data connectivity to all apps and modules within the MOM suite, combining historical and manufacturing data and providing the user with improved customisation capabilities. Dashboards can be shared among users, promoting collaboration between teams. Trends and events are displayed together, which enables users to identify issues and opportunities enabling informed and timely decisions. ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Operations Management is part of ABB Ability TM , the company’s unified, cross-industry, digital offering – extending from device to edge to cloud – with devices, systems, solutions, services and a platform which enables customers to increase productivity and lower costs.

Control cabinet solution Phoenix Contact now supplies a complete solution to optimise all the processes in control cabinet manufacturing. Complete line is a system comprising technologically leading and coordinated hardware and software products, consulting services and system solutions. The optimised interactions simplify all the work processes – from engineering through to procurement, installation and operation. The comprehensive portfolio comprises products for all the tasks in the control cabinet: connection, switching, disconnection, as well as measuring, controlling, supply, and automation. Complete line has the solution for every function. Simple and intuitive operation provides for time savings during the assembly, commissioning and maintenance of control cabinets. The coordination of all the products in the Complete line system, with regard to design and accessories, ensures that parts can be used universally, thus reducing the logistics costs. The Project complete planning and marking software supports the whole process of control cabinet manufacturing. It also enables the individual planning, automatic checking and direct ordering of terminal strips.

For more information visit: https://new.abb.com ABB launched its new version of ABB Ability™ Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software at SPS Nuremberg in Germany, 26 November 2019.

Phoenix Contact’s Complete line solution optimises all processes in the manufacturing of control cabinets.

For more information contact Phoenix Contact. Tel +27 (0)11 801 8200 email: info@phoenixcontact.co.za

Electricity + Control

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